Has science reached its peak?
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All that remains is for scientists to experiment is in scales of the ridiculously small (nano) and large (astronomic) in attempt to discover new avenues for science. The natural world in which we live is seemingly all accounted for. So has science reached its peak? confused
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Peace Angel,
The natural world in which we live is seemingly all accounted for.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Biologically speaking, I think the nuts and bolts of how life operates is well understood. However, we are light years from understanding the finer details. Memory is still a mystery. Regeneration is still a mystery. Stem cell research is in it's infancy. The implications of the placebo effect leaves science standing at the edge of it's domain wondering if it has the wherewithal to venture beyond it's methods. Ocean life is more mysterious than space. There are depths that we simply cannot reach on a long-term basis. A recent journey to Borneo led to the discovery of 150 new species of animal. One beetle researcher discovered, on his own, thousands of new species in the Amazon. Some other areas of little or no knowledge
Super-volcanoes
Carbonated lakes
Ball Lightning
Animal communication
Vortexes
Dormant bacteriaIn short, we are far from any foreseeable limit to what the Earth has in store. And that's just the Earth. The micro and macro are just as mysterious, with new theories emerging and old ones evolving practically everyday. What excites me is the gray area of science where researchers are opening up to possible metaphysical theorizing.
Peace,
Tay -
No Angel, with the Quantum Field, new frontiers lay ahead of us, ain't it Tay? )
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indeed, indeed
i was thinking, i believe there are other branches of mathematics still yet to be discovered, our species only specialize in computing and counting thus far...
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Read this article and you will see new frontiers lay ahead of us
http//19.org/index.php?id=91,419,0,0,1,0&PHPSESSID=555c2c90e0ad00aa475bd2b188e3746b
During the 17th century people also thought all sciences were invented, all philosophies thought off. It will never stop, Allah's Kalimat is endless.
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Read this article and you will see new frontiers lay ahead of us
http//19.org/index.php?id=91,419,0,0,1,0&PHPSESSID=555c2c90e0ad00aa475bd2b188e3746b
That?s very interesting );
One of the most basic theories is, is that
1.all will implode and form a new bigbang.
2. all will be dragged into black holes, and then will create a new bigbang on the other side of the holes.Which one is more likely to happen? confused
During the 17th century people also thought all sciences were invented, all philosophies thought off. It will never stop, Allah's Kalimat is endless.
I thought they used to take scientific theories as indisputable facts. confused
peace
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Peace Angel, Arnold,
Thanks for the links. And yes, the quantum world is reaaally exciting. It's like we climbed a mountain thinking it's the top of the world, and we look upon the other side only to witness a sea of new potential stretching infinitely to the horizon. It is magical, for lack of a better word, to ponder that quantum particles appear only because we're looking! This has certainly turned conventional wisdom on it's head and demands a new "type" of researcher.
I thought they used to take scientific theories as indisputable facts.
No true scientist would take such an anchored position. Theories and facts are not the same. But even facts are few.
the?o?ry
?noun, plural -ries.- a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena Einstein's theory of relativity.
- a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
Peace,
Tay -
I wouldn't worry about science reaching a peak so soon. There are still lots of mysteries to be explained by science.
Consciousness, for example. Science has yet to discover whether consciousness can exist separately from the physical body.
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Many new sciences have not reached it into high school books as high school books are state funded. Thus the state decides it, not the scientific community. Also this is such a revolutionaire way of thinking, it needs time to get used for the scientific community. Same happened with Einstein in the first decade, he was ridiculed, now he is the greatest scientist ever.
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Yes
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My history teacher said that people claim that what we are taught at school is nothing but British propaganda, she did not elaborate on that point so I never quite knew what she meant.
I remember coming across a book in Amazon.com which was called something like "Lies my teacher told me", coz the book was about History lessons taught in America I did not buy it and I could not find a book with a similar theme about history lessons in England.
Do you believe that what you were taught about history at school is fairly accurate? Or does the government in your country have their own agenda to promote. >
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peace
like tommy lee jones said in men in black 1500 years everybody knew the earth was the center of the universe, 500 years ago everybody knew the earth was flat.
there is still a lot to be researched
but that doesn't matter because i don't think there will be much of the world to explore since we're destroying this planet so much. soon there will be no air, no oil, water will rise...
i don't think we'll see the year 2500.